Thread: Issue with initialising Array

I've created an array of a self defined object 'Team'... but when I try to set a property using the array I get a NullPointerException.. Research shows this is because the Array needs to be initialised though I can't see what more I need to do.

I am using a Method of my new object but that doesn't seem to be the problem - as you will see I am declaring another instance of my object and I can use the Method fine on that 'myTeam' . I get the exception from the line where I am using the Method on Array (index 3)

 
       team[] teams = new team[40];
        team myTeam = new team();
 
        try {
            myTeam.setName("WBA");
            teams[3].setName("QPR");
        } catch (
                   Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Error : " + e);
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
 
 
public class team {
 
    private String teamName;
 
 
 public void setName(String name) {
     teamName = name;
 
   }
 
}

Thanks

I interpreted your comment as a need for code like this

             for(i=0;i<40;i++)
            teams[i] = new team();

This is what I have inserted and I'm not getting the error now; Is this the recognised way of doing this?

Probably because I'm a recent immigrant to Javaland from other languages, so not yet practiced in reaching for other constructs